Because once that loss of reading took possesion of the organism, it weakens it so much that it makes it an easy grip of the other scourge, than hides in the ink pot and that it suppurates in the pen.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Really every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.
Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.
To lose your head, you must have one.
The Mind lives on the Heart
Like any Parasite -
If that is full of Meat
The Mind is fat -
But if the Heart omit
Emaciate the Wit -
The Aliment of it
So absolute.
Suffering is caused by a spiritual stagnation, by a psychic sterility. Faith, hope, love and knowledge are what the patient needs for living. No one is really cured if they are not able to reach a religious attitude.
The Earth has existed for over a billion years. For what regards its end, just wait and see.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more, don't you think?